Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:02:36PM +0200, Freek Dijkstra wrote:
> Hi Chris and Sven,
>
> >>> I recently noted a post stating that the bootloader development team did not
> >>> have access to an oldword powerpc. I have one of those, and can do some
> >>> testing this weekend, even if it renders my openfirmware settings obsolete.
> >>> [...]
> >>
> >> It maybe too early, we have a kernel now which should be able to be
> >> mibootable, but not yet the full debian-installer stuff.
> >>
> >> I will make a new kernel build this afternoon, maybe you can try this
> >> one out, and see if you can boot it. I hope once this kernel reaches the
> >> archives, we can try building d-i images also or something such, or you
> >> could do them by hand. I don't really know how miboot works, so i can't
> >> do it myself.
> >
> > You could certainly see if the hfs-bootfloppy.bin image within
> >
> > http://members.cox.net/miBoot.tgz
>
> I just grabbed it - I assume you meant
> http://members.cox.net/toff1/miBoot.tgz
>
> > boots. It should ask for a root disk, at which point you'll just have
> > to reboot for now. We'll need help testing the debian-installer very
> > soon! Thanks for your contributions.
>
> So far I haven't looked into miboot (so far, I used BootX and
> -unsuccesfully- quik).
>
> I will have a look though. As I can see, miboot is a bootloader pretending
> to be MacOS system. So I will use a (currently unbootable) SCSI partition,
> and make a System Folder and put all the files in the miBoot folder in
> there. If all is right, Apple should recognize it as a System Folder, and I
> can choose that partition in the Disk Setup. Correct?
Well, miboot is supposed to go on a floppy disk, do you have one ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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